Lily Irene Jackson (1848-1928)

Watching and Waiting--title unknown.This title and an image of this painting, separately, appearin the records of and on the wall of the Board Room ofthe Women's Building, but elsewhere, this title seems topoint to another painting that may have been exhibited inthe West Virginia State Building at the 1893 Exposition.

Anticipation--title unknown.This title supposedly designates one of thetwo paintings Jackson exhibited, perhaps inthe West Virginia State Building, but the picturehad no title actually attached to it, and elsewhere,this title is briefly described as portraying "two St.Bernards," which these dogs definitely are not,yet this image seems to be of a Jackson paintingexhibited somewhere at the 1893 Exposition.

Sculptor, artist, and designer, Lily I. Jackson was born into a prominent Parkersburg, West Virginia family boasting of generals (including "Stonewall" Jackson), a governor, and an important federal district judge (her father) in the family tree. She studied art in New York and became known for her animal portraits and florals. She was a member of the Board of Lady Managers for the Women's Building at the 1893 World's Fair. Due to some confusion in the records, it is unclear whether she exhibited two or three dog paintings, but there is definite proof (see source) that the first picture above was on the wall of the Board Room in the Women's Building.

Hannah Tempest Jenkins (1854-1927)

Early Morning Sun, Bois de Boulogne, Paris(c. 1900)--representative work

Trees [title unknown]--representative work

Landscape and Still Life (images unavailable)--exhibited in the Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Hannah T. Jenkins was born in Pennsylvania into a family of coal miners. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, followed by studies with Robert-Fleury and Constant in Paris, and in Japan under Tackouchi Seiho. She taught art for many years at several colleges and was the head of the art department at Pomona College in California. "Jenkins" was her married name.

Annie Weaver Jones (c. 1862-1911?)

Corner of the Studio, Sunset, and On Pleasant Toil Intent(images unavailable)--exhibited in the Illinois State Building, 1893 Exposition.

Annie W. Jones was born in Nashville, Tennessee but lived for most of her career in Chicago where she studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design and, in 1870, shared a studio with prominent Chicago artist Pauline Dohn [Rudolph]. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York and in Paris. She was married to Justus L. Johnson.

Dora Wheeler Keith was born in New York and studied art at the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase and in Paris at the Académie Julian. Her mother, Candace Wheeler, was the artist in charge of the interior decorations in the Women's Building at the 1893 World's Fair, and Dora was the creator of the library ceiling mural in the Women's Building. Dora married Boudinot Keith.

A Procrastinator, Sister of Charity,Head of Old Woman, and Cornelia--(images unavailable)--exhibited in the Illinois Building, 1893 Exposition.

Illinois native Alice Kellogg studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design and in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi under Boulanger, Lefebvre, and Courtois. On the basis of "The Mother," painted while she was a student at the Academie
Julian, she was elected to The Society of American Artists, an organization which rarely admitted midwesterners or women. A reproduction of "The Mother" was the frontispiece to the 1893 Century Illustrated Magazine. She painted many portraits for the Union League of Chicago and taught art at the Art Institute of Chicago and at Hull House where Kellogg formed close friendships with its founder, social reformer Jane Addams, and with Mary Rozet Smith in particular. In 1894, she married self-taught artist Orno James Tyler. She died in 1900 at age 37.

Elizabeth MacDowell Kenton (1858 - 1953

The daughter of a respected
Philadelphia engraver and the sister of artist Susan MacDowell Eakins (who also exhibited at the 1893 Exposition), Elizabeth MacDowell Kenton studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibited professionally, and traveled widely. She was briefly married to Louis N. Kenton. No other information is available online.

Susan Merrill Ketcham (1841-1930)

Susan M. Ketcham was born into a pioneer family in Indiana and studied art at the Indiana School of Arts, the Chicago Academy of Design, the New York Art Students League, and in Europe, but not until she was over forty years old. Some of her studies were under William Merritt Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art. Along with seventeen other women, she helped found the Art Association of Indianapolis in 1883.

San Francisco-born Anna E. Klumpke was raised in Switzerland by her mother. In 1883, Klumpke enrolled
at the Académie Julian where she studied under Robert-Fleury and Jules LeFebvre. By 1889, she had won a prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for In the Wash House (for the finest figure painting). In 1898, she worked on an impressive portrait of Rosa Bonheur whom she had admired since childhood; Klumpke became the companion of the elderly artist during the last year of her life, writing her biography and inheriting Bonheur's
studio estate.

Ella (Grace) Condie Lamb (1862-1936)

Ella Condie Lamb was born in New York where, at age 16, she enrolled in the National Academy of Design. After further study at the New York Art Students League, in London, and in Paris at the Colarossi academy, she began receiving recognition for her mosaics and stained glass, as well as paintings, sculptures, and illustrations. She was married to architect Charles Rollinson Lamb who urged her not to neglect her art for their five children. Some of her stained glass art was produced by J. & R. Lamb Studios (her husband's family business in ecclesiastical art). She won a medal at the 1893 position.

Clara Welles Lathrop was born in Massachusetts and studied art in New York at the Art Students League and in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute with William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. No other information is available online.

Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869/73?-1937)

Bertha S. Lee was born into a wealthy San Francisco family which encouraged her interest in art. After studying with William Keith and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, she went on to study in New York and Paris, returning later to her native city to set up her studio. She often painted scenes of the Monterey Peninsula and the San Francisco Bay area. She was married to Louis Eugene Lee.

Laura Lee (1867 - 1954)

Born in Massachusetts, Laura Lee studied art at the Boston Museum School of Fine Art and in Paris at the Académie
Julien with William Bouguereau and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. An ardent suffragist, she also advocated women's dress reform at the 1893 Chicago World's
Fair for which she cut and sewed her own set of "bloomers." The fashion did not catch on.

The daughter of the president of the Lafayette, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati Railroad, Caroline Augusta Lord studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Thomas S. Noble and Lewis Lutz, at the Art Students League in New York with Kenyon Cox, and at the Académie Julian and the Academy Delecluse in Paris. She taught for 25 years at the Cincinnati Art Academy and exhibited widely. Like her friend Elizabeth Nourse, also from Cincinnati, Lord often painted domestic subjects and common laborers.

Anna Lownes studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, with still life painter Milne Ramsey, and at
Eugčne Delécluse's Academy in Paris. In the mid-1880s she was living in Pennsylvania and was known to exhibit at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1884 to 1890. No other information is available online.

Marie Koupal Lusk (1862-1929)

Portrait of a Seated GentlemanHolding a Book and Glasses 1890--representative work.

Marie K. Lusk was born in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, but
immigrated to America with her parents in 1867. She grew up in Illinois where she studied art at the Academy of Design and the Institute of Art in Chicago, followed by training at the Art Students League in New York and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris
with Broík. She and artist Alice Kellogg Tyler established the first art association for women in Chicago, later known as The Palette Club. She was married to attorney Charles
D. Lusk.

A Florentine Mandolin Player (imageunavailable)--exhibited in the
Women's Building, 1893 Exposition

Florence MacKubin was born in Florence, Italy
to Charles Nicholas and Ellen Marietta (Fay) MacKubin, both Americans (her
father dying when she was two years old). She was educated in Europe and
began serious study of art in 1889 at Künstlerinen
Verein in Munich with Professor Herterrich and, a few years later, with Louis
Deschamps, Julius Rolshoven, and Jeanne Devina in Paris. MacKubin specialized in portraits (miniatures, pastels, and oil colors) of prominent people, and her portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, commissioned by the State of Maryland, hangs in the Annapolis State House.
She often exhibited, including 58 pastels at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Her
later home and studio were located in Baltimore, with summers spent in Canada.